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News and Articles on The Bicycle Thief
Killer of Sheep Classic Indie Fil... Aug 13, 2009
In the end, Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep will strike the uninitiated viewer as strange and exotic; to see the film over 30 years after the images were recorded, Killer of Sheep evokes the beauty and longing of Vittorio De Sica's The Bicycle Thief (1948): realistic, but fantastical; naturalistic, but unreal. The copyright of the article Killer of Sheep Classic Indie Film in Review in is owned by. (Suite101.com)
David Denby: Vittorio De Sica’s “Umberto D.,” at MOMA. Jun 29, 2009
Bazin wrote that when Vittorio De Sica s Umberto D. opened in Paris, in 1952, a conspiracy of silence, a sullen and obstinate reticence grew up around it (in contrast to the acclaim that greeted The Bicycle Thief, which came out four years earlier). The resistance to this great neo-realist film (screening at MOMA July 11 and July 13) is not hard to understand. (New Yorker)
Clean Commute 'pimps' bikes to UMKC Feb 8, 2009
For the premiere of the film series, Baker selected "The Bicycle Thief," an Italian 1948 neorealist classic depicting one man's reliance on a bicycle as his only means of survival. The film brought to the audience's attention not only the importance of one man's bike, but the desolate reality of post-World War II in Italy. (University News, MO)
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